Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor Se V Nové Edici Vrací Na Steam a GOG

Twenty-five years after its troubled launch, the role-playing game Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor is returning to Steam and GOG in a new edition from developer SNEG that fixes the technical failures that once defined the title.

The original 2001 release became notorious for a cascade of serious bugs that corrupted saved games, made important items vanish and, in the worst cases, deleted system files during uninstall. Many players remember the title not for its quality but chiefly for its catastrophic technical problems.

The re-release, available now on both Steam and GOG, removes those original technical problems and layers on a set of modern conveniences, including widescreen display support, controller support, adjustable combat speed, tooltips, an action bar and sharper graphics.

The update specifically corrects the biggest errors of the original 2001 release and adds several modern improvements beyond the original features. SNEG says the new version should be markedly more stable, free of the save-corruption and missing-item issues that plagued the 2001 build.

The bugs were severe enough to damage stored progress, erase key items from inventories and, at their most destructive, wipe system files when the game was uninstalled — a failure mode almost unheard of in commercial software. These were catastrophic technical problems that defined the game’s early reputation among players.

After its 2001 release, the game was counted among the notoriously infamous RPGs of its era. Its reputation was built on catastrophic technical failures rather than any quality.

The fixes do not turn Ruins of Myth Drannor into a forgotten classic, however. Beneath the original technical problems, the source notes, lies a fairly simple turn-based dungeon crawler that was interesting chiefly as the spiritual successor to the original Pool of Radiance and as one of the first games built around the then-new third-edition Dungeons & Dragons rules.

The re-release arrives a quarter-century after the 2001 launch, giving a game once defined by its broken saves a second chance on the storefronts where PC players still buy their RPGs.